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he was buried in california at the ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone for its graduates from the speech he delivered at the dedication of the library. i know what my heart that man is good. but what is right will always eventually triumph and that there's purpose and worth in each and every life. during his political career, reagan was disliked and even reviled by most as the intelligence, the mainstream media as they've come to be known. but today there are so those who belittle his will in russia's decision to missiles that the united states and the ultimate failures of soviet communism. but there are many of us remember reagan from his record of 34 television network addresses to the american people. what these americans would call, no matter what the politics was a man of great bearing, straight talk, full of good humor and good will. this feature for president a matter what came his way. there were times he could be angry as he showed in the speeches about gorbachev's behavior and the arms conference on the russian merger of the i
he was buried in california at the ronald reagan presidential library. on his gravestone for its graduates from the speech he delivered at the dedication of the library. i know what my heart that man is good. but what is right will always eventually triumph and that there's purpose and worth in each and every life. during his political career, reagan was disliked and even reviled by most as the intelligence, the mainstream media as they've come to be known. but today there are so those who...
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no one had ever written and young adult book about ronald reagan. i think maybe there are a few about some of the other presidents, but i thought, well, maybe i'll start a trend here. i selected reagan because i think he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy. because of both his childhood and -- a movie star for heaven's sake. i like to read about movie stars. but i have met every president since kennedy, i think. i didn't beat kennedy. but since then i was a reporter in washington for seniors. i met johnson, nixon, ford. i knew ford when he was in the house. actually, i met carter in an interesting way. i came into york from my place out in the hamptons. i came in sunday night as i usually and stopped out that when just rant and had dinner. i stopped off there. proceeded to what we call the family table which is divorcees embezzlers and wayward husbands and so on. [laughter] and alain came over. in the back of the room, and he once talked to you. i set out get there shortly. she said to know, he really
no one had ever written and young adult book about ronald reagan. i think maybe there are a few about some of the other presidents, but i thought, well, maybe i'll start a trend here. i selected reagan because i think he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy. because of both his childhood and -- a movie star for heaven's sake. i like to read about movie stars. but i have met every president since kennedy, i think. i didn't beat kennedy. but since...
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president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of america's border with mexico and immigration policy. i know my words will be distorted by those who disagree. my opponents have already painted me as hardest and and compassionate. they are wrong. my record, my life, how long the critics are. it has nothing to do with skin color, nothing to do with extremism. instead it is rooted in freedom. it shares the spirit of our founding fathers request to form a more perfect union leaders will establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of l
president obama doesn't have much in common with ronald reagan. the difference between the two men is fairly simple. was a long to spread the wealth. the other to spread freedom. in my book "scorpions for breakfast" i tell of my meeting with president obama in the oval office. one 9 look him in the eye and i told him i didn't want to talk about his so-called comprehensive immigration reform. our border with out of control. i stand here today aiming to make a case on the subject of...
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so the letters show many, many things about ronald reagan. one of the important ones that comes through to me is his instinct for the human being. human freedom was one of the great motivating beliefs that ronald reagan had. and let me just tell a story that illustrates this side of it. maybe many of you are not aware that the first deal ronald reagan did with the soviet union was a human rights deal. it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had rushed into our embassy during the carter administration . and you couldn't expel them because you knew what the soviets would do to them. and so they were sitting there and they were kind of a symbol of what's wrong with that system . and with me as kind of a midwife, i helped to arrange a meeting of the ambassador with president reagan. and it was a result of a dinner that you invited my wife and i to over in the white house one snowy evening. it was so snowy that the reagans couldn't get a chopper to take them to camp david. they couldn't get a car to t
so the letters show many, many things about ronald reagan. one of the important ones that comes through to me is his instinct for the human being. human freedom was one of the great motivating beliefs that ronald reagan had. and let me just tell a story that illustrates this side of it. maybe many of you are not aware that the first deal ronald reagan did with the soviet union was a human rights deal. it involved getting the pentecostals, a religious group, i think five or seven of them had...
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not exactly your ronald reagan foreign policy success story. obama's miscalculations are changing history. they are now on the verge of a nuclear run. they are at the epicenter of global jihad. that explains the commitment to developing nuclear weapons. as the ultimate expression of imposing their will on the world. and failing to appreciate iran's deadly nuclear goal, obama has chosen the rong siwrong side onn because he ignored the true democracy movement in iran. that's our best hope of defeating iran with deadly, genocidal intentions. now we credit our brave troops for winning the war in iraq at a very tremendous cost. se t peace.sident recently chose this past week the administration announced once again, they intend to do the same thing in afghanistan. and they lose the peace in afghanistan. it's unthinkable after a decade of effort to defeat global jihad, obama, for the sake of re-election, his chosen to hand iraq to the iranians. only obama could snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and call it success. [ applause ] before obama was e
not exactly your ronald reagan foreign policy success story. obama's miscalculations are changing history. they are now on the verge of a nuclear run. they are at the epicenter of global jihad. that explains the commitment to developing nuclear weapons. as the ultimate expression of imposing their will on the world. and failing to appreciate iran's deadly nuclear goal, obama has chosen the rong siwrong side onn because he ignored the true democracy movement in iran. that's our best hope of...
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ronald reagan used to say freedom is one generation from being lost. and the fact that people serve the country and do so under difficult times we owe you a debt of gratitude and the young people take the example from what you have done with your own lives. one thing i want to do and i will do it quickly is to tell you who i really am. how many of you watch fox news? i'm the brunette at fox news. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and in that regard, i have to earn my keep every day as the brunette at fox news. and so i want to talk to you about the national security issues we face today, the ones we are likely to face four years from now if we don't have a change of course and then really the future beyond that. where are we today? well, the arab spring. a year ago someone stood up here and said this is great. the entire middle east is going up in flames and they are throwing over their dictators and will have new democratic governments. it hasn't happened that way. the countries in the middle east who have overthrown their dictators have in the last severa
ronald reagan used to say freedom is one generation from being lost. and the fact that people serve the country and do so under difficult times we owe you a debt of gratitude and the young people take the example from what you have done with your own lives. one thing i want to do and i will do it quickly is to tell you who i really am. how many of you watch fox news? i'm the brunette at fox news. [ laughter ] [ applause ] >> and in that regard, i have to earn my keep every day as the...
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stuart: mike reagan is with us and joining us now from california and mike reagan is the son of ronald reagan and he remembers very well that 1980 campaign, and i'm sure, mike, that you remember that ad. we have he been running it on our program earlier, where the voice says, do you think some third world dictator could be, would do this if ronald reagan were the president? and we're in that moment now, aren't we? aren't we exactly in that moment right now, mike reagan? yeah, that moment yesterday. you're absolutely right, varney, on that issue, with jimmy carter, it wasn't how he handled or mishandled the hostage crisis that ultimately showed in the favor of ronald reagan not jimmy carter that day. they were right, what one of your people said, they thought that would be a positive for jimmy carter, but the way he handled it made it a positive for ronald reagan. how the president of the united states comes out this morning, the statement he makes and how he handles this crisis it going to say a lot about what's going to happen on november 6th. now the parallels are together. the econo
stuart: mike reagan is with us and joining us now from california and mike reagan is the son of ronald reagan and he remembers very well that 1980 campaign, and i'm sure, mike, that you remember that ad. we have he been running it on our program earlier, where the voice says, do you think some third world dictator could be, would do this if ronald reagan were the president? and we're in that moment now, aren't we? aren't we exactly in that moment right now, mike reagan? yeah, that moment...
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sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the assault weapons ban in the aftermath of the killing of children and women in newtown, connecticut. newt gingrich doesn't blame the easy availability of assault weapons in this country for the murder of 26 at the sandy hook elementary school. he blames this. >> an anti-religious secular bureaucracy, and secular judiciary, seeking to drive god out of public life. >> newt gingrich was one of the members of congress who received that letter in 1994 co-signed by president reagan, asking him to vote yes on a ban on the domestic
sincerely, ronald reagan. richard sweat, a new hampshire democratic congressman said ronald reagan turned his vote to a yes. he was then attacked by the gun lobby and he lost his re-election campaign in 1994. we know what president reagan would be saying today if he were still with us. he would support diane feinstein's bill just like he did in 1994. the reaganite position is to support feinstein's assault weapons ban. but self proclaimed reaganite newt gingrich has not been talking about the...
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but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me and bobby have -- it's nice to have those people cto the dinners. w compassionate. anyway, i endedup in h kitchen. i ate his dinner, tied to the secret service guy. it was raining. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. i once bought a counterfeit watch from times square. same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, he starred opposed a three-foot every chance named bonzo. i worked with bob dougla
but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver, and he was sitting there drinking, like, there wasn't any secret service people there and i were standing there and he was just kind of standard and it was made a couple people. been a photographer. it's not like now everybody is like this, you know. unless they had some twitch. so i, like did what i would normally, i went up and i said hello to but i didn't say hello to him. i said i'm not. [laughter] >> and he just looked at me...
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came at the a imagination of ronald reagan. a lot of the rest of it came in these hallways and from people that have been associated with this foundation for a long time. so as somebody who is a new convert to the republican party but not such a new convert to conservatism, this is like being in the cathedral. i am honored in that sense. rob alluded to the fact that i switched parties a few weeks ago. i did a listing on my blog about it. i have gotten some attention for it. most of it is not deserve. yes it is unusual for somebody who used to be a democratic elected official to switch parties. yes it is unusual for an african american democrats to switch camps. i get all of that. i want to put this to some perspective. 2008 president obama got 53% of the vote, which by the way is the biggest margin anybody running for president has gotten since 1988 when george h. w. bush got 54%. relative landslide in our closely polarized country. president obama's approval rating today depending on the poll you look at, 46% or 47%, depending
came at the a imagination of ronald reagan. a lot of the rest of it came in these hallways and from people that have been associated with this foundation for a long time. so as somebody who is a new convert to the republican party but not such a new convert to conservatism, this is like being in the cathedral. i am honored in that sense. rob alluded to the fact that i switched parties a few weeks ago. i did a listing on my blog about it. i have gotten some attention for it. most of it is not...
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that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to save this program. so we these to invite those democrats into our coalition, work with them so we can fix this country's problems not by cramming our vision of saving the country down their throat like they did, but by bringing the country together. tax reform and medicare reform, perfect examples, two of the biggest ideas that we have to do, and there are plenty of democrats who agree with what we're saying. so what we need to do is win, be magnanimous and include them in a coalition just like ronald reagan and tip o'neill did, and i think that's the secret to success. that's not the kind of democrats you have right now running congress or in the white house. but they do exist be, and so we need to invite them into the coalition. [applause] >> kind of a specific question here regarding
that's what ronald reagan did. it worked. we need to invite these reforming democrats, you know, erskine bowles, alice rivlin, the medicare ideas we've talked about, john bro, alice rivlin, ron wyden, they're all saying this is the best way to save this program. so we these to invite those democrats into our coalition, work with them so we can fix this country's problems not by cramming our vision of saving the country down their throat like they did, but by bringing the country together. tax...
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ronald reagan's. with the limits that you are in a government where we are now looking at very few paying the freight for it we have to do something about that. >> i think we do. but let me tell you. powers at be are not in washington. as long as you are there, powers that be are in washington. >> i have you on the phone. >> enough said i got you on the phone. we talk about a simplified tax code and i think it is the way to go. >> i think that is what paul ryan should have said to joe biden. he voted for 50 to 28%. and the democrats led the fight over the years and kerry brown he wanted 100 percent to pay income tax at the exact same rate and came in second in the primary in 1992 in the democratic party. everyone knows you should have a low rate flat tax for economic growth and/or fairness. it is the right way to go. >> i'm sorry. but everyone having skin in the game. >> exactly. >> they are not looking at the poorest among us. but if you have a stake in the game you are interested in the game and you
ronald reagan's. with the limits that you are in a government where we are now looking at very few paying the freight for it we have to do something about that. >> i think we do. but let me tell you. powers at be are not in washington. as long as you are there, powers that be are in washington. >> i have you on the phone. >> enough said i got you on the phone. we talk about a simplified tax code and i think it is the way to go. >> i think that is what paul ryan should...
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mitt romney is not ronald reagan. what was striking is how many republicans were willing to say on the record that the comparison just doesn't cut the mustard. those things you just mentioned. the economy is so much weaker, very different electorate. ronald reagan didn't have a tough primary battle the way that mitt romney did. but the biggest difference between these two elections is that the country was so different then. the south was still considered democratic. it was only beginning to trend republican. so the week before the election, you had ronald reagan c campaigning in new york city trying to win new york. jimmy carter was campaigning in texas, unimaginable today. it was a very different map, and that's one of the reasons that it's so hard for romney to win this election. what's amazing is we've seen republicans make this ronald reagan comparison before. about four years ago when john mccain fell in the polls, his people also trying to draw that comparison. >> to your point, let me put up the screen on the r
mitt romney is not ronald reagan. what was striking is how many republicans were willing to say on the record that the comparison just doesn't cut the mustard. those things you just mentioned. the economy is so much weaker, very different electorate. ronald reagan didn't have a tough primary battle the way that mitt romney did. but the biggest difference between these two elections is that the country was so different then. the south was still considered democratic. it was only beginning to...
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ronald reagan did this. ronald reagan did this in 1983 for social security. it's the only solution. it's going to have to happen again and it will happen again the fight is going to come on how much for spending restraint and how much for revenue increases. and one other thing president reagan was right about when he said the american people are not undertaxed, we overspend and that's true. and i think there's been some recognition, i hope there's been, in this current administration that the spending cuts are going to have to exceed the revenue increases. >> rose: most people believe, that i think. they would even do 3-1, perhaps. >> i think so, too. >> rose: but on the platform of all the republican candidates they offered 10-1 and nobody was opposed to it. >> but charlie you know why they did that? because there's no spending restraint. revenue increases without spending restraint don't get you there. revenue increases with spending restraint will reduce your deficit and debt. if you don't reduce spending at the same time you go for revenue increases something like rudman-holling
ronald reagan did this. ronald reagan did this in 1983 for social security. it's the only solution. it's going to have to happen again and it will happen again the fight is going to come on how much for spending restraint and how much for revenue increases. and one other thing president reagan was right about when he said the american people are not undertaxed, we overspend and that's true. and i think there's been some recognition, i hope there's been, in this current administration that the...
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ronald reagan, when he spoke, people listened, people trusted ronald reagan to do the right thing. they don't trust obama to do the right thing. he's devisive. ronald reagan was never devisive. it shows best with good friend of talk radio alec baldwin. i ran into alec one time at the gym and he said to me, tell your family how i miss your father. i said what? you disagree with everything he ever stood for. he said yes, but i came to realize over the years that your father had a good soul. and what this country is missing is that good soul. he was absolutely correct in what he said. ronald reagan had a good soul. he didn't talk down to people, he talked to people. megyn: he was called the great communicator. barack obama, the expectations for him to lift us up and inspire us, were very high, hope and change. democrats and independents and republicans were hoping that was true. how important is that ability to finding morning in america again, to inspiring the american people to get out there and get the economy going again? >> be inspired not by the reverand wrights of the world, bu
ronald reagan, when he spoke, people listened, people trusted ronald reagan to do the right thing. they don't trust obama to do the right thing. he's devisive. ronald reagan was never devisive. it shows best with good friend of talk radio alec baldwin. i ran into alec one time at the gym and he said to me, tell your family how i miss your father. i said what? you disagree with everything he ever stood for. he said yes, but i came to realize over the years that your father had a good soul. and...
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because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they get a big dose of politics. they don't have tools to look up presidents. maybe there are a few books on other presidents and i the hot i would start a trend. i selected reagan because he was the most interesting of those contemporary presidents going back to john kennedy because of his childhood and his life. i like to write about movie stars but i have met to every president since kennedy, i was a reporter in washington 10 years. amid johnson, nixon, and ford when he was in the house. i met to carter coming into new york, i came and on sunday night and stoppe
because this is the first speech i have given on ronald reagan. i have four books at out right now that the same time. it is driving me crazy. but i made notes on re again in case i open my mouth and nothing comes out. the reason i was approached to write the book and i accepted is because i realized two or three years ago my daughter caroline ad, 10 at the time, there were not teaching modern contemporary presidents or politics at all. yadda realizes politics is all around us. everyday they...
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ronald reagan, shining city on a hill. to president obama, we are a source of policy that required this president to go around the world and repeatedly apologized for america and what we have done in this world. ronald reagan would never apologize for the greatest country in history of the world. [applause] we have a very similar theme. we have a president who has made this week, cut our defense, we are approaching a $4 trillion budget. $1.20 trillion in deficit. expanding and exploding the deficit by $5 trillion. the only place the president can find to cut its defense spending. it is the only place he is willing to take a pound of flesh. it is the only thing the federal government has to do that individuals cannot do. when i was born, defense spending was 60% of the federal budget. it is now not 60% or 50 or 40 or 20. it is 17%. it is the one area that president obama says we have to cut some more. let me pledge to give just like ronald reagan pledged. we will have a strong and powerful and forceful america. [applause] t
ronald reagan, shining city on a hill. to president obama, we are a source of policy that required this president to go around the world and repeatedly apologized for america and what we have done in this world. ronald reagan would never apologize for the greatest country in history of the world. [applause] we have a very similar theme. we have a president who has made this week, cut our defense, we are approaching a $4 trillion budget. $1.20 trillion in deficit. expanding and exploding the...
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who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people come to these dinners. how compassionate. anyway i ended up in the kitchen. i ate his dinner and talk to the secret service guy, played the piano. remember her? don't worry. it's fitting i'm here. i think i have something in common with ronald reagan. he was governor of california. i lived in california. [laughter] he was once a democrat. via once bought a counterfeit watch in times square. the same thing. everybody makes mistakes. as an actor, i opposed a three-foot hairy chimp made bonzo. i worked with -- no, no, no. that was cheap. that was cheap.
who is this in a reagan mask but it was ronald reagan. he was drinking a screwdriver and he was sitting there drinking. there weren't really any service people there and i was standing there. he was kind of standing there and they had a photographer there. it's not like now where everybody is like this. so why did what i would normally do, at one up to them and said hello to him but i didn't say hello. i said -- [laughter] he just looked at me and said -- it's nice that they have those people...
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ronald reagan did not waste words and ronald reagan's did not waste time. that is what mitt romney is doing. the people running his campaign, if they do not win this campaign, they should be the ones who leave the republican party and never return. stuart: i think that this year, this election, is more gung ho for president obama and more anti-mitt romney. they take more sides more clearly. this is my opinion. in any election i can remember. >> stuart, you are absolutely right. stuart: i think it is worse than in 1980. >> you are absolutely correct. it does not mean out they are out of control so you sit back and hope you win because you are a good guy. you do not win because you are a good guy. you win because you are aggressive and you take the fight to them. you do not sit there and take the mainstream said this about me i need to hold a press conference and i need to answer what the mainstream media is asking me. no. he needs to remind america where we are right now and ask the tough questions of the united states and bring it home in november. stuart:
ronald reagan did not waste words and ronald reagan's did not waste time. that is what mitt romney is doing. the people running his campaign, if they do not win this campaign, they should be the ones who leave the republican party and never return. stuart: i think that this year, this election, is more gung ho for president obama and more anti-mitt romney. they take more sides more clearly. this is my opinion. in any election i can remember. >> stuart, you are absolutely right. stuart: i...
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reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan -- provided information about fellow actors and his opponents and the screen actors guild, and j. edgar hoover repaid those favors. here is one document here is one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there. >> i will summarize and then go to the pertinent part. this is a document from august 4th, 1947, and is a report on the fbi's investigation into hollywood. one of the areas the fbi was looking at was alleged communist infiltration of labor unions. one of the main unions is the screen actors guild, you can see here this is the index, and the scre
reagan and covered ronald reagan, to see documents that say ronald reagan is and in former, not an informant but and in former. maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door and told him of that there were communists and liberal groups he was involved in and as reagan rose in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what documents show is what...
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ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school teachers and historians and public historians, i don't have to tell you about prohibition. and the federal government's great social experiment. what i did have to tell my fellow guys here, this was about the legacy of prohibition. >> brian, seems to me from what you're saying alcohol drives the expansion of the federal state. >> that's exactly right. and one can make a very good case for big government, so called, beginning not with the new deal but beginning with prohibition. for those of you who want to say sayonara, good riddance to big government, we got rid of prohibit
ronald reagan was in essence holding the states hostage. we're going to take all of this money away from you if you don't listen to us in the federal government. >> did they all buckle? >> they all buckled. even wisconsin although i think wisconsin was the second to last state. >> i'm sure grudgingly. >> very grudgingly. now of course the story is much earlier than that, the story of the federal government getting involved and speaking to a knowledgeable group of school...
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ronald reagan asked congress to raise the debt limit several times that was rational economic policy. these people that are running the house republican party attack them. and mitt romney willing to accommodate the right-wing, actually attacked rick santorum because he voted to raise the debt limit at the request of ronald reagan. this is not a center right party. as to israel. we differ about what is the most effective way to defend israel. i have been going to college campuses, and berkeley, california, been to brown, i have been to, georgetown, yale. to defend israel the i do it from the left. i do it in part. one of the things i want to give credit to the netanyahu government. in the history of the united states, three government leaders have said pro gay rights things, bill clinton, barack obama and benjamin netanyahu, made a pro-gay statement. one of the few times that the republicans did not stand up to mra applaud him. scandalous sly. if your position is you are going to defend whatever the israeli government does. your credibility as a worldwide defender of israel is weakened
ronald reagan asked congress to raise the debt limit several times that was rational economic policy. these people that are running the house republican party attack them. and mitt romney willing to accommodate the right-wing, actually attacked rick santorum because he voted to raise the debt limit at the request of ronald reagan. this is not a center right party. as to israel. we differ about what is the most effective way to defend israel. i have been going to college campuses, and berkeley,...
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this is ronald reagan. thanks for listening. (end of excerpt) c-span: what was your reaction the first time you heard that? >> guest: oh, it was emotional. i've heard it ma--a few times now. we've played it to audiences as we've discussed our book in the last couple of months, and it's a--it's an emotional one, because you also see rea--reagan as a--his kind of emotional side. and it's authentic reagan. it's just who he is and how he thought, and it just, i think, gives a lot of credibility to the--the book, because you see him writing as he's talking. you see him thinking, looking out of a window, thinking about, you know, the fact that he has to write these things. he's really writing this as he's watching the cars, so i think it's wonderful. c-span: now did--did you go into this project with a certain idea of who ronald reagan was? and have you changed your mind? >> guest: i didn't, and so i didn't go in with a certain view. i think had i--had i had a s--fixed view of reagan, i don't know that i would have even asked for the
this is ronald reagan. thanks for listening. (end of excerpt) c-span: what was your reaction the first time you heard that? >> guest: oh, it was emotional. i've heard it ma--a few times now. we've played it to audiences as we've discussed our book in the last couple of months, and it's a--it's an emotional one, because you also see rea--reagan as a--his kind of emotional side. and it's authentic reagan. it's just who he is and how he thought, and it just, i think, gives a lot of...
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and this is why if ronald reagan is interesting. he goes to eureka college, tiny little place and if you study closely what you can see it's like harry truman who didn't finish college, only modern president didn't have a college degree, they both of their particular political the machinations or their own self education. in ronald reagan's defense case it is the years in hollywood and traveling around the country when he's reading of the early modern classics of the american conservative movement whitaker chambers witness, the economics and one was in his reading and the speeches, he's doing all of that on his island. i think it's possible but ronald reagan could have been ruined by the conventional ivy league education. and, so that would be the most interesting. harry truman read history from a very early age and one of the things he says, and i quote in my book, something like a person sits here at this desk in the oval office ought to know his american history. good for him. contrast sharply, i can't resist, contrast sharply wi
and this is why if ronald reagan is interesting. he goes to eureka college, tiny little place and if you study closely what you can see it's like harry truman who didn't finish college, only modern president didn't have a college degree, they both of their particular political the machinations or their own self education. in ronald reagan's defense case it is the years in hollywood and traveling around the country when he's reading of the early modern classics of the american conservative...
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to get there you can do what ronald reagan and george washington did. they understood margaret thatcher's rules for stephen the argument then you win the vote. george washington denied that they were marching to climb on the votes in the snow storm had his officers greeted the opening pages of thomas kane's latest pamphlet which washington had asked him to write. he was the great pamphleteer with common sense and describe the declaration of independence and now it was turning out to be really hard. in july of 1776 had turned into a bitter and painful depressing and demoralizing series of defeats. when washington had the crisis which begins these are the times as washington said the first to win the argument then you in the war. people had to believe. i just came here tonight to say to you we have no reason to despair, no reason to back off, no reason to surrender but you have every reason to behave as americans. i look forward to questions. [applause] [applause] so, the speaker has been kind enough to give us a few minutes for questions and answers and
to get there you can do what ronald reagan and george washington did. they understood margaret thatcher's rules for stephen the argument then you win the vote. george washington denied that they were marching to climb on the votes in the snow storm had his officers greeted the opening pages of thomas kane's latest pamphlet which washington had asked him to write. he was the great pamphleteer with common sense and describe the declaration of independence and now it was turning out to be really...
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that's a lie it was later debunked ronald reagan never sat with a group of african-american teenagers who talked about the minimum wage hurting them and it in fact people tried to track down those people just like they tried to track down his famous welfare queen couldn't find it but he said it sincerely just like he talked sincerely when he took credit for creating workplace see the legislation as governor of california. we created an ocean an occupational safety and health agency for the protection of employees before the federal government had one in place and to this day not one of his decisions or rulings has ever been challenged so i think some of those charges are missing the point i suggest not true again osha was passed by democrats in california over ronald reagan's objections but rumor talk sincerely and people will believe it actually large parts of what was ocean california was set up long before ronald reagan it which any out sets up this claim made by reagan against the department of energy catch this. the department of energy is a multi-billion dollar budget in action
that's a lie it was later debunked ronald reagan never sat with a group of african-american teenagers who talked about the minimum wage hurting them and it in fact people tried to track down those people just like they tried to track down his famous welfare queen couldn't find it but he said it sincerely just like he talked sincerely when he took credit for creating workplace see the legislation as governor of california. we created an ocean an occupational safety and health agency for the...
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ronald reagan was the exemplar. he was the best vote getter. it was his lieutenant governor robert finch, and the only man familiar on politics reagan really respected i think. and i think reagan saw the need from -- after the goldwater defeat, that if republicans had to cooperate, and it to an affirmative conservatism that could some sof of the nation's problems. >> the reference was pretty terrible in the early 60s. it was reagan who posed this 11th kmanment. it tended to moderate the conversation and probably the philosophy a bit, too. >> al has a book coming out in the next couple of years on william buckley. >> thank you. >> okay. from new jersey originally. in jeff's book he attributes one of the causes of the moderates' demise to their inability or lack of interest in doing precinct work, organization ability. lee talks about conservatives taking over the party machinery, which they're relinquished. my question is and i looked back at that period, you had about a third of the senate called themselves moderate republicans and they had two
ronald reagan was the exemplar. he was the best vote getter. it was his lieutenant governor robert finch, and the only man familiar on politics reagan really respected i think. and i think reagan saw the need from -- after the goldwater defeat, that if republicans had to cooperate, and it to an affirmative conservatism that could some sof of the nation's problems. >> the reference was pretty terrible in the early 60s. it was reagan who posed this 11th kmanment. it tended to moderate the...
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reagan, having covered ronald reagan was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. not an informant, but an informer. how did that start, and maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> yeah. that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door or and told him that there were communists in some of the liberal groups that he was involved in. and as reagan wrote in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my eyes to a good many things. what the fbi documents show is what reagan only hinted at, that reagan proceeded to become an active informer in hollywood, that he provided information about fellow actors and about his opponents in the screen actors guild and that in subsequent years j. edgar hoover repaid those favors by giving reagan personal and political help even though it was beyond the fbi's jurisdiction to do so. and here's one document about reagan and the fbi. >> can you read that out there? >> no. >> can't read it? >> i'll summarize it and go to the pertinent part. this is from august 4, 1937
reagan, having covered ronald reagan was to see documents that say ronald reagan is an informer. not an informant, but an informer. how did that start, and maybe you could show us how you could determine that. >> yeah. that began in hollywood right after world war ii. one night in 1946 fbi agents knocked on ronald reagan's door or and told him that there were communists in some of the liberal groups that he was involved in. and as reagan wrote in his memoir, these fbi agents opened my...
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he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we asked them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the program they felt was the best. people said why did you take it in the first place, why don't you leave it there. host: from virginia, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm just sitting here amazed and outraged by the assertions that the former secretary is making. number one, blaming the obama administration for the mess in the middle east, because of obama's polices, as i recall a year ago, condoleezza rice and the other members of the bush administration were tripping over one another to claim that they were the ones responsible for the arab uprising, th
he didn't have the votes then, ronald reagan, in his second term. if he didn't have them then, you won't need them now. you don't need a department of education, you need some federal responsibility in education but it could be minimal. when i was secretary, we did a poll, a survey, of all our grant recipients and we asked them to evaluate the program, the program that got the best grades, the bloc grant to the states. we take the money, we take our cut out, and send it back to them. that's the...
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ronald reagan. didn't turn out that way. michael reagan is the late president's son and chairman of the reagan group. they didn't think your dad would win it was january 1980. jimmy carter 63% in the hypothetical matchup. and ronald reagan 32%. 63% to 32% and we know how that ended. are people counting out mitt romney, other candidates on the gop side a little too soon? >> what you in fact for wishing for with jimmy carder is wishing for ronald reagan in 1983. he was an actor, governor much california with hollywood, i can easily beat this guy and it was a landslide 50% to 40% in notch of that year. but you might also remember during that process we were going through a rough primary. four or five different candidates vying for the nomination. megyn: it sound familiar. four or five would-be nominees vying for the nomination. it turns out that the former president gerald ford told the "new york times" reporter every place i go, everything i hear there is a growing sentiment that governor reagan cannot win his election and the
ronald reagan. didn't turn out that way. michael reagan is the late president's son and chairman of the reagan group. they didn't think your dad would win it was january 1980. jimmy carter 63% in the hypothetical matchup. and ronald reagan 32%. 63% to 32% and we know how that ended. are people counting out mitt romney, other candidates on the gop side a little too soon? >> what you in fact for wishing for with jimmy carder is wishing for ronald reagan in 1983. he was an actor, governor...
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and about that. >>> ronald reagan who has ever called is not accused of being a socialist understood repeatedly that's when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal you have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. he did it multiple times. he did not get through republican primary today. i asked our political analyst about this. >>> idea of residents of bonn was really saying is the truth which is that all the republicans are looking for social conservatism in the fabric of somebody like ronald reagan the positions they're being forced to take in some of these seven states especially are so extreme that their positions are more than likely president reagan wouldn't taken all those years ago when he ran. >>> the republican race may not be officially decided for a while it may take from the until the california primary on june 5th to get the needed delegate count. elizabeth cook cbs five. >>> is a chance to lock in the shoes of a loved one with a degenerative disease. the tools used to give us a rare look inside the world's of someone with dementia
and about that. >>> ronald reagan who has ever called is not accused of being a socialist understood repeatedly that's when the deficit started to get out of control that for him to make a deal you have to propose both spending cuts and tax increases. he did it multiple times. he did not get through republican primary today. i asked our political analyst about this. >>> idea of residents of bonn was really saying is the truth which is that all the republicans are looking for...
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reagan, in uttering the words ronald reagan. you can't just say ronald reagan like a spell, and wonderful things begin to happen. in the 2008 presidential campaign, former massachusetts governor mitt romney introduced his reagan zone of economic freedom. not the romney zone of economic freedom, mr. romney does not have that sort of power yet. it was the reagan zone of economic freedom. president obama in his foreign policy team have pursued a policy of taken china's misbehavior to the world trade organization to try to stop china from cheating wherever possible and question their human rights, but romney thinks that turns america into a door mat. he thinks president obama is letting china walk all over him. he would not push china on that wto stuff. his solution instead is to create a reagan zone. a reagan zone for all of the countries around china. while it is extremely unlikely china would join the reagan zone, our offer to allow china to join would modify their trade and industrial behavior. seriously, that's the plan. it's u
reagan, in uttering the words ronald reagan. you can't just say ronald reagan like a spell, and wonderful things begin to happen. in the 2008 presidential campaign, former massachusetts governor mitt romney introduced his reagan zone of economic freedom. not the romney zone of economic freedom, mr. romney does not have that sort of power yet. it was the reagan zone of economic freedom. president obama in his foreign policy team have pursued a policy of taken china's misbehavior to the world...
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ronald reagan washington national airport at 32. but elsewhere in the district of columbia, in the 20s. fairfax, arlington, and rest of maryland and into west virginia it is in the 20s and frosty cold. little bit of fog around this morning in the shenandoah valley. watch out for that. clear sky around the region. high pressure has moved in. will give us plenty of sunshine with temperatures still below freezing until 8:00 this morning and then getting above freezing by 9:00 then by noon time into the 40s to near 50 with sunshine, a sunny afternoon. highs reaching the low to mid-50s today and then this evening a few clouds in, sunsets at 5:35. we'll be down to the low 40s by midnight and by dawn on tuesday, right near 30 degrees and afternoon highs again tomorrow with lots of sun into the low to mid-50s. colder weather moves in on wednesday. weak area of low pressure comes in. on thursday, sunshine back. here's the seven day outlook into friday, saturday and sunday, colder for the weekend. highs only in the 30s to near 40 on saturday
ronald reagan washington national airport at 32. but elsewhere in the district of columbia, in the 20s. fairfax, arlington, and rest of maryland and into west virginia it is in the 20s and frosty cold. little bit of fog around this morning in the shenandoah valley. watch out for that. clear sky around the region. high pressure has moved in. will give us plenty of sunshine with temperatures still below freezing until 8:00 this morning and then getting above freezing by 9:00 then by noon time...
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ronald reagan. what is the problem that was so grave? what was bigger than the individual -- >> he didn't believe in using the federal government. so it must have been star wars. >> yeah, star wars. >> berlin wall. >> wrong, wrong, wrong. >> no? >> i'm convinced it will help state legislators to act in the national interest to save our children's lives by raising the drinking age to 21 across the country. >> this was about drunk driving. this was about alcohol. this was about something that i think most of us in this room think is a terrible thing, driving while drunk. but it's an example of how commonplace it became for the federal government to get involved in issues of health and safety in the 20th century. so much so, that even perhaps the strongest anti-big government president of the 20th century, well, there's some competition, but ronald reagan who defended the 10th amendment, who stood up for states' rights, said the federal government has to get involved when mothers against drunk drivers say that this is real trouble. and thos
ronald reagan. what is the problem that was so grave? what was bigger than the individual -- >> he didn't believe in using the federal government. so it must have been star wars. >> yeah, star wars. >> berlin wall. >> wrong, wrong, wrong. >> no? >> i'm convinced it will help state legislators to act in the national interest to save our children's lives by raising the drinking age to 21 across the country. >> this was about drunk driving. this was about...